Calling all happy campers! I am super excited to share the photos from Christian’s recent 10th birthday party! I can’t believe how quickly he has grown and that he is now in the double digits! Kids really do grow up so fast. Big sigh…

When we started discussing his party, Christian knew he wanted it to be a camping/sleepover theme party! There was so much to celebrate about this big birthday and I wanted to plan a very memorable party for him turning 10! Unfortunately, where we live, the weather is not conducive to outdoor camping in March. However, we didn’t let that stop us from bringing the outdoors inside! So…Welcome to “Camp Christian!”

Today, I will be highlighting the dessert table. One of the highlights of this party was the donut wall backdrop. Donuts are all the rage right now and I knew I wanted to add lots of donuts to this party. As you know, all campsites are full of donuts, right?!? Too funny!

I asked our good friends to build this custom donut wall and then began adding delicious donuts in coordinating colors on the pegs. I purchased a wooden letter “C” and designed a printable 5×7 sign, “Donut You Wish You Were Here”. I was thrilled at how easy this was to do and what a great backdrop it turned out to be.

Another huge trend right now are drip cakes that are topped off with lots of mini goodness! This s’more cake from Pretty Sweet, had mini donuts, marshmallows, mini meringues, and my fav macarons! Oohhh this was a delicious, 4-layer cake! Yum!

Sticking with more s’mores, I added this S’more Station to the table and filled glass jars with marshmallows and graham crackers. Small galvanized buckets were filled with various mini chocolate bars for everyone to choose from.

This tiered tray is perfect for dessert tables and was large enough for the glass jars, buckets, and paper bags filled with home made trail mix. This recipe was adapted from Jenny’s Cookies amazing book, “Eat More Dessert”. I made this delicious mix with Cheerios cereal, mini marshmallows, salted peanuts, almonds, M&M’s, and chocolate drops. The cute little tag is included in the new printable package that will available in the shop soon!

Tip: don’t fill brown paper bags with trail mix unless you first use a plastic baggie as a liner. The oil from the peanuts was quickly absorbed by the brown bags and looked very greasy. Lesson learned! Fortunately, the boys didn’t seem to be bothered by it. They were too busy inhaling the trail mix! Hungry Campers!

A dessert table isn’t complete without cupcakes! I baked two different kinds of chocolate cupcakes and then added a few different toppings. My BFF made these yummy Rolo cupcakes awhile back and I knew that these would be a hit at the party…and they were! I whipped up my favorite chocolate buttercream icing, and added Skor bits and Rolos to the top of each cupcake. A few other cupcakes had teeny tiny marshmallows! You can’t have too many s’mores! Notice how I used pretzel sticks to attach the cupcake toppers? A little woodsy feel plus the salt from the pretzel mixed with the sweetness of the Rolos was divine.

The second batch of chocolate cupcakes included buttercream icing, chocolate drizzle, caramel popcorn and pretzels! So delicious and really simple to create.

These AMAZING cookies were superb and created by our sweet friend, Christy from Dolce Custom Cookies. She matched the cookies to the printables perfectly. She seriously is the best!

More mini donuts were added to the top of the milk bottles and finished off with a wood grain paper straw, and more printables. So cute, right!?!

I loved how these mini kraft ripple cups filled with popcorn turned out. They make great little snacks and are super cute!

I baked our favorite snickerdoodle cookies, bundled them into stacks, and then added these mini arrow wood pins from Michaels. They matched the theme perfectly!

Thank you for stopping by our campsite! So many more photos coming to the blog tomorrow! See you then!